Identifying patients with chronic pain who respond to acupuncture: results from an individual patient data meta-analysis.

CONCLUSION: We did not find evidence to support the notion that there are exceptional acupuncture responders. The challenge remains to identify features of chronic pain patients that can be used to distinguish those that have a good response to acupuncture treatment.
PMID: 32571096 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society - June 21, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Foster NE, Vertosick EA, Lewith G, Linde K, MacPherson H, Sherman KJ, Witt CM, Vickers AJ, Acupuncture Trialists Collaboration Tags: Acupunct Med Source Type: research